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Florida Rocket
Testing Delayed
JONG RANGE PROVING GROUND, COCOA, Fla., July
19 —Technical difficulties are delaying the scheduled fir
ing of a double-header rocket out over the Atlantic today.
The rocket, a two-stage “bumper” built around the Ger
man V-2 with a little “Wac Corporal” in its nose, was sup
posed to whoosh on its way about 8 a. m. (EST).
Special Sessi
Rogers’ Retirement,
i ‘“‘Compromise’” Plan
© Pose Main Problem
ATLANTA, July 19— (AP) —
The University System’s Regents
today pondered a divorce between
the agriculture school and the Uni
versity of Georgia at Athens.
But that was only one of the
Regent’s problems: There is also
a request by University President
Jonathan C. Rogers that he be per
mitted to retire.
Both matters are due for de
cision at tomorrow’s session of the
Board, which runs the state’s high
¢r educational institutions.
There apparently was no agree
ment among the Regents, however,
on either matter at last report.
Some of the Board members re
mortedly ‘were of a mind to ask
Dr. Rogers to stick around for an
other year and give the Board
more time to pick a successor.
Other Board members indicated
they were willing to grant the
college head’s request. 3
Informal discussions of a suc
cessor have brought forth the
names of Dr. O. C, Aderhold, dean
of the University’s College of Ed
ucation, Dr. G. H. Boyd, graduate
School dean; Law School Dean J.
A. Hosch and Dr. A. B. Biscoe,
Dean of faculty.
The mention of these names,
however, did not preclude the se
lection of an out-of-state educa
tor. .
After months of argument, the
Regentg are believed to have come
to some conclusion on whether to
separate the Agriculture College
from the University and set it up
as a new division answerable only
to the Regents and Regents’ Chan
cellor Harmon Caldwell.
At present the agriculture school
is under the jurisdiction of the
University president who in turn
answers to the Regents.
In a previous meeting the Board
voted to set up a vice president
for the University of Georgia and
give him jurisdiction over all ag
riculture'services — college exten
sion service and experiment sta
tions.
One group of Regents main
tains the separate status for the
agriculture school would resultina
more efficient operations. The
other holds just the reverse and
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LONG DROUGHT CONTINUES
FARMERS DESERT
MOUNTAIN HAMLET
“ CHILILI, N. M., July 19.— (AP) —Storekeeper Earl A.
Dow leaned over the worn counter and pointed across the
road to g dry stream bed.
“See &ose four pine trees?” he asked. “See how they've
died from not gettin’ any water? I've lived here 30 years
now, and I never saw that before.”
~ This mountain hamlet is nearly out on its feet, and the
few folks still hanging on know it. N R
It's tl{é-;l;c;fighi:-Dow estimates
Chilili, Jocated 39 ‘miles southeast
of Albuquerque, is only one-thi:jdl
its fermer size. |
And it’s not just this eommuni
ty which is againgt” the ropes.
Farmers over a wl’ge area in the
Estancia Valley of the Manzano
mountains arg” having it tough.
i'w thipks 50 per cent of the
rec.ients hereabouts have moved
oy in the last few years.
~ "This isn’t the first time we've
had dry weather,” the storekeeper
explains, “A lot of folks have
Jjust been squeezing by for the last
seven or eight years. It's tough to
make a living around here.” i
Only 47 families are left. There |
were 104 families here six months
4go. Another 67 families found
things too rugged and pulled out,
mosily for larger towns and cities,
during the last eight years.
“The Albuquerque garbage de-’
bartment has a lot of our men
now,” Dow remarked. “Most of !
the others are working off and on. !
Only about half a dozen won't |
have any work at all.” !
Like its neighbors, this is a
farming community. Most of the
people are Spanish - American.
There are two stores, a gas station
and a school. That’s about all, ex
€ept for some empty stone houses.
“We only had an inch or two
of snow all last winter,” the store
keeper said. “The first rain we
got wag on July 6. Since then:
we’ve had six or seven good show- I
ers. They were too late, though.”
Some farmers are going ahead
2nd planting row crops now. They
doq;t.ge put in pinto beans, their
mai; 2 mm"‘mm ‘,m ts
come early in parts. ¥
" Eelg has been gromised by the
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
BY JAMES J. STREBIG
‘ Difficulties in control circuits
caused a series of postponements.
} The Public Information office now
says it hopes the guided missile
will take off on its expected 300
miles flight around late today.
Army, navy and air force
“brass” are on the scene along
with scores of newspapermen
watching workers make last min
utes .adjustments.
When the rocket takes off it will
be the first horizontal or low-angle
firing of the V-2 in this country a
well as the first launching at 1’
yprawling base operated by @ 4
air force as missile proving grounc
for all the services.
- The experiment in low angle
firing marks a new phase in the
long struggle for development of
rockets into a long range, accurate |
weapon.
The army project, carried on
through a contract with General
Electric Company, already has
studied in six previous firings
straight up the problem of launch
ing a small rocket from the nose
of a spent or nearly spent larger
rocket. , |
This new phase goes into the
problem of air effects on very
high speed rockets — 3,500 to 5,000
miles an hour — flying at relative
ly low altitudes.
The “bumper” was expected to
go no higher than 25 miles com
pared with a normal V-2 attack
altitude of 65 miles and the 250
miles high record set by a V-2 and
AC corporal combination at hite
White Sands, N. M., eraly last
year.
The V-2 is one of many Gerian
rockets brought to the United
‘States in 1945. The AC corporal
is an experimental liquid-fuel
‘high altitude rocket.
i Col. L. Turner, top army repre
sentative at the proving - ground
and a leading expert in the field,
said flight effects were the main
study in the program.
The goal is to achieve “pin
point” .acgugcx.mm rocket miss
iles compared with a German rec
ord of dropping them within 10
miles radius of the aiming point.
The United States already has
reduced that probable radius to
five miles, he said.
Tons of liquid oxygen and alco
hol were hauled to the site for the
launching. The B-2 blups 5,000
gallons of fuel at each filling.
.
Superior Court
Term Nears End
Clarke Superior Court: neared
the end of the July term yesterday
and it was expected to complete
business today. Yesterday a di
vorce was granted both parties in
the Phillips vs. Phillips case.
The cases of Carter vs. Busbin
and Busbin vs. Carter were set
' tled and another case of Carter
lvs. Busbin was dismissed.
State Welfare Department. Food
from the federal farm surplus pro
grom will be distributed next
week.
“The folks who are left talk a
lot of moving to town, Dow said.
«] don’t know what I'll do if they
all leave. Guess I'lL probably just
stay another 30 years and make
out as best I can.”
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Truman Asks Men, Materials
To Win War, World Defense
Arrival Of Two Divisions
Strengthens U. S. Defenses
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"0 OKYO, Thursday, July 20.— (AP) —Fresh American
‘;‘f. oops, with one division established on a new beachhead
~in South Korea and another backing the line, took some of
the pressure off the 24th Division in the central front to
day. The Reds nevertheless put a heavy squeeze on Taejon.
To complicat matters for the 24th, North Korean infil
trators got behind their lines, said General MacArthur’s
chmmunique issued at 12:55 a. m. Thursday (9:55 a. m.,
ST).
Taejon and an adjoining village were under heavy Red
artillery fire. The 24th still held theeity. @~ =
Draft Age Of
35 Is Hinted
WASHINGTON, July 18—(AP)
—Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the
House armed services commit
tee said today he will introduce a
bill to give the secretaries of the
Army, Navy and Air Force power
to “freeze” enlisters and draftees
in military service.
He told reporters it has not been
decided how long a period the
freeze would last. In the last war
it was for “the duration and six
months.”
At present, the law sets the
draftee’s term of service at 21
months. Enlistment can be for
varying lengths of time, starting
at three years. ke St R
It also is expected that the de
fense .department will request
that the fop age draft limit of 26
years be raised. Some sources in
dicated it may be placed at 35
years.
Vinson said his committee will
take up quickly the President’s re
quest that all legal limits on the
size of the armed forces be lifed.
15 Nazi Storm
Troopers To Die
BERLIN, July 19—(AP)—An
East German court today inposed
15 death sentences on former Nazi
storm troopers for a week-long
reign of terror 17 years ago in
Suburban Kopenick. aa
The incident soon after the-Nazis
came to power in 1933 became
known as “Kopenick blood week.”
A hundred Jews and anti-Nazis
were tortured and slain by the
brownshirts.
Survivors testified against 56
defendants, although only 46 were
in the dock. Ten now living in
West Germany refused to appear
for trial. e
Five of the defendants on hand
were sentenced to die. The 10
missing troopers tried in absentia
drew the same penalty, prison sen
tences ranging from five years to
life, at hard labor, were imposed
on the remaining 41 men.
Education Board
Meet Postponed
ATLANTA, July 19—(AP)—A
meeting of the State Board of
Education, scheduled for Friday,
has been postponed until next
week, vice chairman James S.
Peters said today.
Peters said that the postpone
| ment was ordered because the
board’s finance committee had not
been able to complete its study
of all the department’s proposed
budgets for the new school year.
The members of the board met
* Tuesday night with Governor Her
| man Talmadge at the executive
l mansion.
15 years down to 20 months. Mrs. Wads
worth’s husband, driver of the tractor,
was injured seriously. Parts of the tractor
are in left foreground and in background.
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST CECRGCIA OVER A CENTURY
MacArthur said fighting flared‘
also on the central sector’s Chung
ju-Hamchang-Sangju road where
Reds are moving south and in the
Yongju-Andong corridor farther
east. The South Xoreans held
stubbornly to their %eneral de
fense line in this area but Yechon,
on the road between Andong and
Hamchang, is in Red hands.
From this area the Reds are
trying to cut the American sup
ply line from Pusan to the Taejon
front. ¢ -
The First Cavalry Division now
in fact a mechanized infantry unit,
is a famed World War II outfit. It
landed at Pohang, a small port 66
miles north of Pusan, Tuesday
without opposition. It had an
American-British carrier air um
brella. , This unit, which has a
reputation for speed, drove seven
miles inland at last reports with
out opposition.
Reds In Area
But Reds are known to be near
the area. MacArthur’s commu
nique said the Reds had been
pushed farther back from Yong
dok, which is only 25 miles north
of Pohang, by South Korean
troops.
An early report that 5,000 caval
ry (first cavalry division) men
were landed brought a reply from
MacArthur’s headquarters in Tok
yvo that five thousand “is not a
realistic figure.”
Official announcements spoke
only of a division. A division
normally numbers 12,000 to 15,000
men. The number put ashore was
withheld for security reasons.
The other fresh division, a noted
World War II outfit known as the
25th (Tropic Lighting) division—
also landed in Korea sometime be
fore the First Cavalry Division
made its beachhead. First reports
created the impression that two
new beachheads had been estab
lished but later information in
dicated the 25th had gone in at
Pusan as reinforcements. Its ar
rival had been kept secret for se
curity reasons.
Possible Record
The Ist Cavalry Division moved
into South Korea on 10 days no
tice, believed a record for mount
ing an amphibious operation.
The cavalry took full equip
ment including artillery, engineer
ing and signal units and plenty of
supplies to Pohang, to support in
dependent operations, if so re
quired. .
Guerrilia action had been re
ported in the area earlier. The
Red North Korean radio b%?sted
last week that a division of North
Koreans had landed at Pohang.
General MacArthur’s commun~
nque announcing the arrival of the
fresh divisions in Korea said ele
ments of one “have already en
tered combat” and that the other
would be “committed to action in
the very near future.”
The 25th could have gone into
action at Yechon, 52 miles inland
and on the right side of a line
heretofore held solely by South
Korean troops. Unexplained U.
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REDS SLOWED DOWN BY AMERICANS
The solid arrows on this map locate Communist drives
which have been slowed down by Americans and South
Koreans (open arrows) north and west of Taejon and to
the northeast in the Yechon area. The sawtooth line
locates the area for a possible new defense line if further
withdrawals from Taejon are necessary. The explosion
symbols on the map locate targets of B-29 air raids.—
(AP Wirephoto Map.)
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U.S.Is In Position
To Hold Down Prices
Huge Government Surpluses Offer
Curb Action On Some Commodities
WASHINGTON, July 19.— (AP) —The government has
power to prevent runaway prices for many food and farm
products.
It does not need special price control authority to place
curbs on markets for such commodities as wheat, corn, cot
ton, dry beans and peas, butter, flaxseed, linseed oil, eot
tonseed oil, cheese, dried eggs and dried milk. 7
Power to set up what amounts
to price ceilings exists in provi
sions of farm law relative to gov
ernment authority for disposing
of farm surpluses acquired under
price support programs.
By offering these products at set
prices, the government could pret
ty well fix the top limit of prices,
at least as long as its supplies
lasted. Few if any buyers would
pay more than the government
selling price
In the case of non-perishable
and storable commodities, the gov
ernment may sell at prices equal
to five per cent above the current
price support rate, plus reasona
ble carrying charges.
In the case of perishable pro
ducts — such as butter, cheese,
dried eggs and milk —the gov
ernment may sell at any price it
sees fit, when there is danger of
these products deteriorating.
Recent price increases, since the
outbreak of the Korean fighting
have brought about an investiga
tion by a Senate Bank subcommit
tee headed by Senator Maybank
(D-SC), . G :
Inquiry Ready
The inquiry is to start_ tomorrow.
Maybank said, with special refer
ence to eggs and meat, that “we
are going to call in some of these
people who have been putting up
their prices and see why they have
done it.” There also have been
congressional complaints about
bread price rises.
Despite recent price advances on
some foods at the retail level, most
commodities owned ‘by the gov
ernment are still selling for less
than minimum levels at which
Uncle Sam could sell them.
Wheat, for example, is selling at
close to the price support level,
which is 90 per cent of parity, or
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and rather hot tonight
and tomorrow, with scattered
afternoon showers.
GEORGIA — Generzlly fair
and continued heot this afier
nocn, tonight and Thurs'cy ex
-3;;3:!«' a few scatiered aficr
thundershowers.
Thomas L. Mann
Dies Inßowman
Thomas Lumpkin Mann, resident
of Bowmarn, Ga. for the past 30
years, died at his home Tuesday
evening following an illness of
several months. He was born July
28, 1869, in Dewey Rose. He was
the son of the late Edward Jack
son Mann and Catherine Gaines
Mann.
Mr. Man was a deacon in the
Baptist Church of Bowman and at
one time held the office of treas
urer. He was a well liked friend
of the many who knew him and his
friends in this section ot the state
will be saddened by news of his
death. .
~ Funeral Services will be con
ducted from Bowman Baptist
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FiRST INFLATION CURB
Brakes Applied To Housing Boom
WASHINGTON, July 19—(AP)
—Clamps were tightened on the
government-fostered housing boom
today in a move to curb inflation
and save materials for the ex
panding national defense effort.
The pressure came from a
presidential order yesterday to re
strict credit requirements on sales
of houses. It was due to be felt
by buyers, sellers, builder% pub
lic housing programs for low-in
come families, colloge dormitory
projects — in short, practically
every non-military housing plan
requiring government help.
A 25 per cent jump in the mini
mum cash down payment required
on houses sold with mortgages in
sured by the Federal Housing Ad
ministration was a major immedi
ate effect. 4
Thus a man who last week could
have bought a SIO,OOO house with
$2.000 cash and an SB,OOO FHA
insur2d morigage would have to
pay $2,500 cash because FHA
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No Rationing Foreseen Now;
r
Higher Taxes Planned Laser
WASHINGTON, July 19.— (AP) —President Trumaf
asked Congress today to vote all the men and. arm '
strength needed to turn back the Communist armigs
Korea and to block armed aggression elsewhere in t
world. >
He put the starting cost of building up the militarg
power of the United States and the free world at $10,0004
000,000.
He said a sharp tax increase, together with other eeca
nomic controls, are necessary to curb inflation and helg
]t'oot the military bills. The tax recommendations will com¢€
ater.
For the present; Mr. Truman‘
asked power to curb time-pay
ment buying, establish priorities,
allocate materials, control inven=-
tories and requisition needed sup
plies and materials.
Reserved for the future such
more drastic measures as price
control and rationing and called
upon all Americans to avoid them
through voluntary restraint.
The President made clear that
Bulletin
WASHINGTON, July 19.—
(AP) — Responding swiftly to
President Truman’s call for ac
tion *“without delay,” the House
today authorized $1,222,500,00
for military afd te free mations
#o combat communism sbroad.
Passed earlier by the Senate,
the bill now goes to the White
House for the President’s sig
nature.
his $10,000,000,000 program was
only the beginning. He foretold
the early need of more billions to
reinforce the military strength of
the North Atlantic powers border
ing Soviet Communism in Europe.
He said higher defense spending
- would go on for years.
' And the future? Mr. Truman
coupled emphasis on United Na~-
tions action in Korea with a warn
ing against further aggression
clearly aimed at Marshall Stalin
in Moscow. His words:
“The free world has made it
clear, through the United Nations,
that lawless aggression will be
met with force. This is the sig
nificance of Korea—and it is a
significance whose importance
cannot be over-estimated.
“I shall not attempt to predict
the course of events, But I am
sure that those who have it in
their power to unleash or withhold
acts of armed aggression must
realize that new recourse to ag
gression in the world today might
well strain to the breaking point
the fabric of world peace.”
Legal Limits
Mr. Truman asked that all legal
limits on the size of the armed
forces be lifted to permit increas
ing them “substantially.”
The President also reported to
Congress he has empowered Sec
retary of Defense Johnson to call
to active duty “as many Nation
Guard unlts an@ as many units
and individuals as the reserve
forces of the Army, Navy, and Air
Forces as may be required.”
The Armed Services now are
limited by law to 2,005,882 men.
That figure is divided this way:
Army 837,000, Navy 666,882 and
Air Force 502,000.
At latest report the actual num
ber of men under arms was Army
593,000, Navy 451,000 and Air
Force 407,000.
Mr. Truman laid down his pro
gram in a 5,500-word message to
the Senate and House reporting in
detail on what has happened in
Korea and why the United States
again is fighting thousands of
miles from home.
“The attack upon the Republic
of Korea,” Mr. Truman said,
“make it plain beyond all doubt
that the International Communist
movement is prepared to use
armed invasion to conquer inde
pendent nations, We must there
fore recognize the possibility that
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would go only $7,500 on the mort-
gage. : |
Home-buying veterans, hither=
to able frequently to get a seller’s |
waiver of any cash downpayment{
if they could get a mortgage gua- |
rantee from the Veterans Adminis- |
tration, faced tougher going. !
The VA prepared to require
them to pay at least 5 per cent of
the price in cash before guaran
teeing their mortgages—provided
the law would permit such a re
quirement.
These are only two examples of
the restrictions on government
housing-credit terms Mr. Truman
ordered. Government officials
predicted the action will take
considerable steam out of the re
cord-smashing housing boom by
making it harder for buyers to ac
quire, for builders to finance, and
sellers to dispose of homes. =~
The National Association -of
home builders, with 17,000 private
builders listed as members, agreed,
. HOME
EDITION
Search Still On
For Three Men
Trapped In Mine
LARK, Utah, July 19—(AP)—A
rescue crew, buoyed up by hope
that three men trapped for three
days might still be alive, will de~
scend into the depths of a smoking
lead mine today.
The descent will be mpde as
soon as electricians getinto opera
tion & water logged moter which
runs a two-cage hoist, w
hope the operation ean be
late today.
Two of the five men’ lost h:
American Smelting, %
Mining Company mine were
dead on Monday. Rescue workers
bg B sy oy
might sti alive i
reached an air pocket. Ffim
out in the mine early Sunday.
The three men being fi
were Clyde Ouguston, 41, ‘
tant mine superintendent; Robert
Gordon Meyerhoffer, 36, electri
cians’ foreman, and Leland Niel
sen, 38, pump eperator,
~ Rescue ecrews last night virtual
ly completed combing the main
‘level of the mine in «fi. northeast
section, where the men were be~
lieved to have sought security
Plans were under vray to search
lower levels of this section tomor
row.
A company official expressed
the belief that the men may have
descended in a hoist to the 1,000~
foot level of the mine.
McCombs Rites
.‘i: 3
William David McCombs, 70,
resident of Athens for thirty years,
died in a local hospital Tuesday
afternoon at 5:30 o’clock following
a short illness.
Services will be conducted
Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock
from Bernstein’s Chapel with Rev, |
Newt Saye, pastor of Edwards
Chapel Paptist Church, and Rev.
Johnnie Barrett, pastor of John=
son Drive Baptist Church, officiat- }
ing.
Burial will follow in Oconee
Hill cemetery with Herschel |
Lewis, W. O. Fields, William
Campbell, Jim Beavers, Grady
Crawford, Bob Seagraves, Dr. N. |
G. Slaughter and Dr. Frank Ham- ‘
mett serving as pall-bearers. '
Surviving Mr. McCombs i his
wife, Mrs. Mittie MeCombs:
daughter, Mrrs. Paul Hart, Daw~
son, Ga.; two sons, John D. Mc-
Combs, Athens, and James M. Mc-
Combs Atlanta; two sisters, Mrs,
Ella Crocker, Spartanburg, 8. C. |
and Mrs. David Wiggins, Glemdale. |
S. C.; and four brothers, G. B. Mc- |
Combs, Magnolia, Miss., J. ¥. Mc-
Combs, Ashboro, N. C., A. L. Mc-
Combs, Cayce, S. C., and C. B. Mc- |
Combs, Glendale, S. C. '
Mr. McCombs was a native of
Glendale, S. C., and resided ir
Athens for thirty years. His home |
was on the Danielsville Road. Mr .
McCombs was a member of Eas |
Athens Baptist Church and a dea
con in that congregation. He was
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but promised ecooperation toewarc
achieving the President's @im o
“substantial” curtailment. ] %
The savings in ' materials nnf
manpower that might be divertec
to the defense effort obwiously
would be sizeable. B
Housing units have beem pro
duced at a rate approaching 1, %,
250,000 a year. Fifty per cent mor:
were started under construction i 1
the first half of 1950 than in the
first half of 1949. . . %
Costs of construction material
have been mounting with demand
especially in recent weeks. Dim @
inished civilian demand—if no'
counteracted by expanded militar;
requirements—could check that.
T;:e Pnrle’sident’s orders «wer.
binding o w D
cies, which ha somewhat les
than half of all mo e loans
.